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> these use-cases were not sufficiently covered in the past. Many systems do not have those use cases. Everybody needs an init system, so that's where systemd
by effie 4y ago
> these use-cases were not sufficiently covered in the past.
Many systems do not have those use cases. Everybody needs an init system, so that's where systemd could have been the fix to the deficiencies of sysvinit (as marketed). Instead, it merely kind of works as init, sometimes with random errors and disrespecting the keyboard input when things go wrong. And then instead of fixing and polishing that experience, developers expanded into million other directions, including DNS, container management and what not. Systemd is becoming a bad OS like Windows is.
> User session are also now handled in systemd - one less component to be developed by the "Desktops" - yay!
But systemd is used on servers too, and the user sessions and broken behaviour it introduces are a needless pain best to be disabled there. User sessions and related is really something Desktops should be handling, since it only makes sense on Desktops.
- esarbe 4y ago> Instead, it merely kind of works as init, sometimes with random errors and disrespecting the keyboard input when things go wrong. I have never experienced that kind of errors you describe and I use Linux+GNU on my private workstations, on my professional workstations, on various servers and some NAS devices. Is there a bug report that documents these failures? > Systemd is becoming a bad OS like Windows is. Systemd is a system management layer, the operating system is GNU+Linux. > User sessions and related is really something Desktops should be handling, since it only makes sense on Desktops. You can disable it, if for some reason you get errors. Never had issues with user sessions on servers either.
- effie 4y ago> I have never experienced Good for you. > Is there a bug report that documents these failures? I didn't try to document these rare random events. I've learned to expect them, as part of the systemd feature. But there are such reports, e.g. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20920 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20920